Car-stake.



No. 880,446. PATENTED FEB. 25-, 1908.

T. ELLIS. GAR STAKE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 7. 1907-.

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A TTORNE Y S WITNESSES THADDEUS ELLIS, OF TACOMA, WASHINGTON.

CAR-STAKE Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 25, 1 908.

Application filed June '7. 1907. Serial No. 377.726.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THADDEUS ELLIs, a citizen of the United States, anda resident of Tacoma, in the county of Pierce and State of ashington,have invented a new and Improved Car-Stake, of which the following is afull, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to car stakes such as used on logging cars toprevent the logs from rolling off the sides of the car.

The object of the invention is to produce a car stake which willconstitute a good substitute for the wooden stakes now employed, andwhich can be readily brought into oper ative position or depressed fromthis position when the logs are to be loaded in the car.

The invention consists in the construction and combination of parts tobe more fully described hereinafter and particularly set forth in theclaims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part ofthis specification, in Which similar characters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in both figures.

Figure 1 is a vertical transverse section through a car loaded with logsand provided with car stakes constructed according to this invention; inthis view the car wheels and axle are indicated, but the supports forthe car body are omitted; and Fig. 2 is a horizontal cross sectionthrough the car stake, taken on the line 22 of Fig. 1.

Referring more particularly to the parts, 1 represents the body of thecar, to the sides 2 of which the car stakes 3 are attached. These carstakes are mounted in pockets 4 of'the usual construction, and thesepockets are simply castings, presenting rectangular or square openingshaving a vertical axis and tapering slightly toward the lower portion ofthe pocket. They are held in position by bolts 5 which pass through theside of the car as shown. is provided, which is'divided into twosections; at the meeting faces of these sections a threaded bore 7 isformed which extends in a vertical direction from the upper to the lowerface of the box. In this threaded bore a threaded spindle or screw 8 orstake proper, is mounted. To the lower end of the spindle 8 a stem 9 ispivotally attached at 10, and this stem carries at its lower extremity ahand wheel 11. The bolts 5 are extended at their inner extremities so asto support a hook 12 which hangs down at the inner side In each of thepockets 4 a box 6 of the car. This hook 12 is held in place by asuitable collar 13 and a split pin 14. When the logs 15 are to be placedon the car, the spindles or screws 8 are rotated to withdraw themdownwardly below the level of the car floor. The logs may be thenreadily rolled across the edge of the car body and against the stakes atthe other side of the car, which will be screwed up so that they projecta considerable height above the car floor. When the logs are loaded uponthe car, the stakes on both sides of the car will be in the positionshown at the right in Fig. 1. In order to bring the stems 9 out of theway when the car is running upon the railway, these stems will be foldedin, as indicated at the right in Fig. 1, and will be hung upon the hooks12. It should be understood that there will be as many as desired ofthese stakes alongeach side of the car, and that they will be placedopposite to each other in the usual manner.

The boxes 6 are made in two halves, as shown, so as to facilitate themaking of any repairs to the thread, as evidently the box may be takenout and the sections separated, so as to expose the bore for theapplication of a chisel or a similar tool.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent:

1. A pocket adapted to be attached to the side of a car, a depressiblecar-stake sliding longitudinally in said pocket and having an operatingstem attached thereto adapted to fold under the car.

2. A depressible car stake comprising a screw adapted to becomedepressed through the car floor, and a stem jointed to said stakeadapted to rotate the same, said stem being adapted to fold into aninoperative position.

3. A depressible car stake comprising a screw, a box having a threadedbore receiving said screw, a stem pivotally attached to said screw andadapted to fold under the car and carrying a hand wheel for rotating thesame, and means for supporting said stem under the car.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

THADDEUS ELLIS. Witnesses L. N. HANSEN, M. T. WETZEL.

